Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2012-10-02

Details

• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile vidyo room
• meetings generally held on Tuesdays @ 9:00am Pacific - exceptions apply every 6 weeks
• Roadmap 2012-13 landing page
• Product Planning landing page

Agenda

Roadmap launchpad: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap12-13

Q4 Goals

• Agree on product-specific Firefox on Android goals for Q4

Other Topics for Discussion

• iOS investigation update

Minutes

ARMv6 go / no-go

• DECISION: ARMV6 will NOT go into Fx 16 GA, but will ride out another beta cycle on Fx 17
• Only 19 unique data points have been gathered - consolidated spreadsheet of feedback
• These few data points are not overwhelmingly positive
• We do not want to be in the same position when we approach Fx 17 GA: we need to make use of this extra beta cycle
• Within the next 1.5 weeks, Karen (with input) will create a plan on how to try and get more data on ARMv6 devices
  • Take into account marketing, external testers, social media outreach, ....
• Exploration with a third-party test house should proceed, BUT we must be explicit with their methodology (test cases, bugs, hardware)
• Product Marketing was not planning on pushing this hard, therefore it will not make a big impact to Fx 16 GA plans
• Important ARMv6 markets are Philippines, Indonesia, India and Eastern Europe
  • In majority, Philippines, Indonesia and India use English locales so we shouldn't be hugely hampered by not having their specific locales included
  • Current list of supported locales in the multi-lang build
• Irina to send out top ARMv6 phones for these regions for better user targeting
• Google Play downloads grabs the model information, which can be used to give an indication of the ARMv6 audience / interest

Q4 Priorities

• Shared the plan for Q4 priorities with the team -
• The work is grouped by its release channel: GA on Fx 16 or 17, Beta on Fx 18, Aurora on Fx 19 or Under Investigation
• These projects are ALL deemed priorities for completion in Q4 and are important in maintaining the health of the Fennec roadmap
• Feedback can be provided back to Karen, Brad, Mark, Chad, Sam or Erin
• It's prettier in slide format, but the content is as follows (current as of today's meeting):

GA: Fx 16, Fx 17

• ARMv6
• WebApps
• Media Decoding

Beta: Fx 18

• Android Snippets
• Private Browsing & Safe Browsing
• Google Campaign IDs
• Updater
• New Font
• Select Search Improvements (search suggestions opt-in; one-line search widget)

Aurora: Fx 19

• Android-Supported Locales
• WebRTC (demo -> not for Aurora)
• Reflow on Zoom
• Metrics & Benchmarking
• Personalisation & Customisation

For Investigation

• First-Run UX and Next Gen Sync (BID)
• iOS Support
• X86 Support
• WebRTC

Hot Items

• Fx 17 - media decoding
  • Fx 17 will include H264 support for ICS and JB, but very unlikely we will include GB support
  • GB will come in Fx 18
  • GB users will get a mime-type error after clicking on the content
  • Product Marketing has already been planning for this phased roll-out
  • Irina re-confirmed that honeycomb and froyo numbers are very low and decreasing, therefore we will not expend cycles in implementing support for these OS versions
• Font licensing update
  • New font not yet licensed, but Ian is working through some different options
  • Code landed that allows us to switch fonts